The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.